While it feels
like a life time ago, since I bought Cocoa, I remember like it was
yesterday. Furby was one of those 'hot' toys that hits the market hard
and dies out almost just as fast. While many kids don't even know what
one is, for some of us who are kids at heart, we still have our
Furby(s).

Cocoa and several of his friends still live here. Their batteries are
removed most of the time to prevent leakage. However when Thanksgiving
comes, they are brought back to life for the holiday season. Sure the
are fancier and more high tech critters on the market, but Furby was
the first one out that brought fuzzy, high tech and affordability
to the mass market.

Below is the original text from this page. At one time there were over
a hundred links and this page pulled an average of one new visitor
every five seconds. Today it's the lowest visited page on the web site.
However like Furby, it has good memories and doesn't cost a cent to
keep. Some text were links, to some cool web pages, however they are
long past. These are now shown as 'italic text'.
Back in October '98 I heard that a new toy called
a "Furby" was going to the the hot toy for Christmas. So to the search
engines I went, I typed the word Furby on all of the major search
engines,
and came up with my total number of hits being 3. Of the three hits one
was Tiger's page.

From the Tiger page I learned that Wards had
just received
a shipment that day, so off to the store I went. When I walked in and
asked
the salesperson about them, he had to stop and think for a moment, "Oh
ya, we just got them today". There sat a big display full of the
critters.

By Thanksgiving the country was going Furby
Crazy, message
boards, chat rooms, web sites were popping up all over the place. Not
only
was my counter rising, so was the street price of Furby.

Christmas morning came, many a person found a
Furby under
the tree, while others only hoped. I, like many other people thought
the
storage would be over by mid January. ...Well you can't be right
all the time.

A year later and many generations of Furbies,
and a lot
of new friends, the story continues.

Furby
Buddies These cute little bean bags are one of the cheapest Furby items
around.

These
80 little guys were the best buy in town, Any one want a hamburger and
fries?

I have set up this little guest book for
people to post
which Furbies the need. Nothing fancy but should help you to do some
swapping.
Please use the guest book at the bottom of this page for remarks about
this site.

Good online friends! When I first started this
page back
in October '98, it was easy to keep up with what was new. Then came
Christmas,
and now we have special editions, new colors, and the list goes on. I
would
like to thank all the great people who help by writing me and
letting
me know of anything I have missed.

Avoid
rip offs the Graduation Furby looks like the original black and white
with
the only major physical difference appearing to be a graduation cap.
However
the Graduation Furby does come in a special red Limited Edition box.
According
to the Official Furby site
250,000
were released.

All new Furbys have a "Deep Sleep" mode
enhancement. The
new feature makes sure Furby stays asleep until his owner is ready to
play.

Don't use the cheap batteries, or old
batteries!! I have
seen two different people who thought their Furby was defective, only
to
find that if they used 4 new Duracell or "Pink Bunny" batteries, all
was
well.

You need a small phillips SCREWDRIVER to open
the battery
compartment.

If you do get a defective Furby here is the
address -
Tip from Juwen

Tiger Electronics

980 Woodlands PkwyVernon Hills, IL 60061Attn: Repair Dept.

These two came from one of my visitors - Jerry

If you tilt the box all the way forward and
shine a flashlight
in back of Furby, you can usually tell if there is a tail or mane.

Of the ones I've gotten for friends, I
have found
that the black with white tummy and gray tabby with gray tummy both
have
manes The all white, all black, gray spotted and gray tabby with white
tummy have all had tails.

Possible "Easter Eggs"

These are the ones I've found on different
postings around
the net. ( I have not tested any of these yet)

Hic-cups:Swing your Furby around. He'll start saying
Weeee, Waahooo,
Big Fun, etc. But after a while 5-10 minutes of this, he'll start to
hic-cup
after saying Waahoo, and gradually after other words too. It took a
while
for him to do it, but he does. It's either a circular motion, or a left
right left motion that sets him off. So try both. Not sure which one.

It's how to make him cry:Turn your Furby upside down, and GENTLY shake him
up
and down. Do not hold his bottom still. It won't work. Or at least we
haven't
got him to do it while holding the bottom. You'll hear some noise, that
seems to be his eyes rattling. We've been doing it all night, and ours
is none worse for wear. He'll start asking you to stop, saying he's
scared,
and eventually he'll cry. OR you'll get the opposite reaction, and
he'll
love it, saying it's big fun. Do not even try it if he's hungry. That's
all he'll tell you. LOL

From
the newspaper. Of course all copy right belongs to the owner not me on
this one.

Rumors

My quick two cents about rumors: As a rule they
are false,
however every once in a blue moon one will turn to fact. So if or
nothing
else other than fun reading here we go.

His a new one, try this: Place your Furby in
front of
a mirror, and see if he will play with himself. I have received two
e-mails
from people that said theirs did.

Here Kitty Kitty, I've seen postings from
different people
reporting that their Furby can say Kitty. I have now received an e-mail
from one person that said theirs has also done this. Would love to hear
from some more folks about this. This may just be a cute easter egg. ;-)UPDATE:
3/22/99 For the past couple of weeks dozens of you have written me
from all over the country, it would appear that Furby does say "Here
Kitty
Kitty" the trick appear be that you need a pair. While a couple of
people
that wrote only had one, most had at least two.

If you reset the first or second time it will go
into
spanish mode. You will know this when it says "Beuno".Update:
I've had two people write me that say there's have done this and lots
of
folk say NO WAY. Tiger may one day come out with a Spanish speaking
Furby.
Update:
Tiger now has Spanish speaking Furbies, along with many other languages.

Sorry there are no "pink" or "blue" Furbies.
The only
way you get one of these is if you dye them.Update:
Almost every color of the rainbow is now available.

No matter what you hear all Furbies are
"rare", not just
any one color. They are made in equal numbers. Of course after
Christmas
there will be enough for everyone.Update:
There will be enough after Christmas appears to have be a rumor too!
Update
2: Well it's now a year later, much easier to find, but still
doesn't
appear to be a surplus of them.

My favorite rumor: "You can teach him new
words", sorry
you can't teach him/her new words.

That Furby is going to be re-designed, because
of the
lawsuit. The Official Home page states this is false, there are some
new
colors and features, but no re-design.

Y-2 problem with Furby. Well I wrote the
webmaster of
the official Furby site that Tiger runs. Their response was NO PROBLEM.
Furby does not have a time reference. Good news for us!

Things that go
well with
a Furby

Tiger
has now released to stores the "Furby Backpack"! Wow, now you can carry
your Furby and still have your hands free.

Hit the local discount store, "baby dept.",
one of the
mini diaper bags for a Furby tote.

Then either the baby doll, section for some
play silverware.

Well you get the idea, now here are some sites
that are
offering a few things of their own. By the way I'm also working on
making
a 1 and 2 Furby tote.

Or a Hand-made
Afghan or blanket?
Need help carrying Furby around? Check this little Furb-tote.

The Furby
Trainer's
Guide, a new book on the market with tips and tricks.

Fan Sites

The
Official
Furby Website-yes, he does have his own site

Everything
Furby- Includes a couple of links, was one of the
first
Furby pages on the net. Not worth the time to see unless you are one of
us old timers who started their pages back in early October of
'98.

Furbish Fetish

Furby
Accessories - home made blankets

Furby and
Friends - lot of stuff

Furby
Autopsy - If you want to know what makes him work, this is
the
site

R.I.P. - These poor boards have died,
it would
appear there was no reset button for them. What causes the death many
times
is people being rude, and posting inappropriate messages. Some of these
messages, were done unintentionally, but most by mean, crude, south end
of a north bound horse. (Think about it, this page is kid safe, so I
watch
my language, but you get the idea.)

Well Furby isn't NEW any more so we aren't seeing near
a
many stories. However some of the older stories are still on line. The
good news is I haven't heard of any one getting hurt trying to buy a
Furby
since Christmas!

Straight from the horse's mouth! Roger
Shiffman President of Tiger chats with MSN